"You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears."
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"For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness."
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"I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it."
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"I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books."
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"Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing."
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"If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident."
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"To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it."
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"My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness."
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"What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily."
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"A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time"
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"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."
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"I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age."
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"Details are the Life of Prose."
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"For excellence, the presence of others is always required."
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"If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as."
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"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."
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"Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write."
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"When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody."
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"Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography."
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"You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read."
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